During the Cold War, both Soviet and American military units were forced to contend not only with the strange circumstances surrounding the discovery of mysteriously downed aircraft, but also the terrifying implications involved in both of these seemingly inexplicable incidents. In this installment  we travel to the nearly impenetrable jungles of Laos to expose one of the darkest and most sinister secrets in American military history.

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At the height of the Cold War a unit of seasoned Soviet paratroopers were choppered into an isolated Siberian forest to recover a downed military transport plane; little suspecting that their seemingly routine mission would ultimately reveal a mystery that would haunt them for the rest of their days.

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When folks imagine encountering inhuman entities they tend to envisage eerie, isolated, out-of-the-way locales like foreboding forests, murky marshes or dark, desolate dirt roads, but dedicated Fortean investigators know all too well that bizarre beings can appear anywhere and at anytime… and, like the rest of us, sometimes they need to go shopping too. 

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This week we present a triptych of paranormal encounters involving a voracious vampire, a bio-mechanical monstrosity and an epic duel between a man and Leviathan that is literally the stuff of legend; all culled from genuine newspaper articles of yesteryear courtesy of Adam Benedict’s essential  “Monsters in Print”.

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